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Letters relating to New College, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 54
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1825-1949
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)
Fonds
Identifier: MS ERS T
Scope and Contents
Proof copy of printed letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870). Contains pencil annotations instructing to "preserve", "omitt", "begin here", etc., for each letter. Contains less content than William Hanna's 1878 published edition, including letters with Thomas Chalmers, the portrait (frontispiece), the preface, and the expository writing providing context to each letter. However, some letters within this volume are omitted from the published version - including a number...
Dates:
1877-1878
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates:
1908
Letters to J. L. Levison from Combe and others
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1243
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 20 non-chronologically numbered items, letters and fragments, as follows:
1 - Letter to Levison written from Grafton Place, London. 3 July 1827
2 - Fragment, Mr. Fletcher, Bookseller, Southampton, 15 February 1821 [postmark]
3 - Folded paper or envelope with black edge and black wax seal, addressed to Levison, from Sir G. S. Mackenzie,...
Dates:
1821-1848
Letters to Rev John Brown (1754-1832), Whitburn on translating catechisms and tracts into Gaelic and supplying them to the Highlands and Islands
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 8.1 to MS BOX 8.2
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1805-1826, 1951
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Lewis, Thomas Preston
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-3
Scope and Contents
Class tickets for Lister's lectures on Clinical Surgery signed by Lister University of Edinburgh 1874-1875 and 1876-1877; attendance certificates for Lister's lectures on Clinical Surgery signed by Lister with Medical Faculty's attendance regulations University of Edinburgh 1874-1875, First Class Merit certificate in Clinical Surgery signed by Lister University of Edinburgh 1874-1875; notes from Lister to Lewis 1879
Dates:
1874-1979
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
LHSA Photographic Collection
Fonds
Identifier: P
Life-mask of J. W von Goethe, and correspondence relating to Weisser the maker of the mask
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1322
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
This is one of only two examples of Goethe's life-mask. It had been sent to Thomas Carlyle by J. P. Eckermann and hung in Carlyle's home for many years. On Carlyle's death it was presented to David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh, and on his death was given by the Masson family to Professor Hume Brown who in turn bequeathed it to Edinburgh...
Dates:
1807-1920
Lindsay, Janet Cranston
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-47
Scope and Contents
Certificates 1924-1929; letters regarding certification 1951; badges
Dates:
1924-1951
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Lindsay, M. G.
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-48
Scope and Contents
Manuscript copies of Preliminary State Examination papers 1935-1945
Dates:
1935-1945
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive